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Apparently these two can’t take a vacation from saving animals! April and Bryan spend their lives rescuing farm animals through Fabled Farm Rescue & Sanctuary, so when they learned that locals in Iceland head out at night to help baby puffins who get lost in town, they had to join in. Dodo editor Brielle shares how their midnight search led them to a puffling they named Örn, and one very memorable vacation rescue.

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00:00The question is, did this baby puffin need to be rescued?
00:08So imagine this. You're on vacation in Iceland.
00:10It's about midnight, and you see an animal you're not used to wandering the streets.
00:14Oh my god.
00:16We had been out walking for about an hour when we spotted the little puffin.
00:21Oh my god, you guys, we found a baby puffin.
00:24Tough to know what to do, or if you're even supposed to do anything at all.
00:28There is a puffin.
00:29It's a baby puffin.
00:30But what April and Brian learned on their trip is that pufflings, that is, baby puffins,
00:34What do we do?
00:35I don't know.
00:37who leave their burrows can often get a bit confused by our human town lights
00:41and head inland instead of toward the ocean.
00:44So that's why residents and visitors actually go out looking for stranded pufflings.
00:49It was literally right on the street.
00:52So they can help release them back to the sea.
00:55And that brings us to how they found Ornn.
00:57As rescuers themselves, April and Brian were more than happy to chip in.
01:03This may be the best thing we've ever done in our lives.
01:07We carried him down to the rescue center, but they were closed, and the sign said, come back the next
01:13morning.
01:13He just looked at us like, okay, people, what are you going to do now?
01:18So, equipped with gloves and years of rescue experience, all they needed was a box.
01:24This is now what I just want to spend my life doing is searching for puffins.
01:28They got him safely off the street and kept him overnight until the rescue center opened up in the morning.
01:36So, in this cabinet, there's a bowl and a scale.
01:40That's where Ornn was weighed and cleared for release.
01:45He was big enough to release, so we took him up to the cliffs where we were the previous day.
01:51There were puffins flying everywhere.
02:03We're just surrounded by puffins right now.
02:10Do you see where you are?
02:13Do you see where you are?
02:15He seemed to know, like, this is home.
02:18Then came the part April was a little less prepared for.
02:30He's doing it!
02:32He did it!
02:33He did it!
02:34He did it!
02:36It was the most nerve-wracking and amazing thing all at the same time.
02:44She's so happy!
02:47Are you so happy?
02:49It was overwhelming.
02:50I completely lost it.
02:54We flew seven hours to the island to save a puppet.
02:57This is the highlight of our trip.
02:59And we fly home today.
03:01Oh my gosh!
03:03We couldn't have asked for a better first flight.
03:05Okay.
03:06That was, like, the most emotional thing in the whole world.
03:11That was so worth it.
03:13That was absolutely amazing.
03:16And we could see him actually land with a bunch of other little baby puffins.
03:24Sometimes...
03:24You know...
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